Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only has Moscow shown that it cannot readily afford both bombs and butter; it can ill afford to buy loyalty abroad. The Communists supply only 5% of the underdeveloped nations' industrial imports, accept an equally small percentage of exports in return; 95% of these countries' trade is with the West. As for Soviet foreign aid, paper promises of $6.5 billion last year contrasted sharply with the $305 million in goods and credits that, actually were delivered...
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY (Ill.) Alan T. Waterman, director. National Science Foundation Sc.D...
...women have no further interest in or knowledge of what makes the car go. When something goes wrong, all they know is that the car is making "a funny noise." At the start of a new bumper-to-bumper touring season, Auto Repairman Frank Burwell of Peoria, Ill., who recently won a nationwide contest for mechanics conducted by Chrysler, has compiled a handy glossary of auto talk for the mechanically unsophisticated...
Stuart Merriam, 38, attended impromptu services in the basement of the church-and his presence drew crowds twice as large as the ones that came to hear the substitute preacher upstairs. But to most of his fellow ministers. Stuart Merriam is a grave ecclesiastical embarrassment, a preacher ill-suited to his call. Last week the Presbytery of New York-an assembly of ministers and elders that governs 62 United Presbyterian churches in the city-decided, by a vote of 79 to 11, to revoke Broadway Presbyterian's call to Merriam. The presbytery also selected a nine-man judicial commission...
...given little chance to speak. A motion to withhold further action until the delegates had more time to study the report was voted down. In an impassioned speech that brought tears to the eyes of women parishioners sitting in the gallery, Merriam accused the presbytery of taking unjust and ill-considered action against him. "Fathers and brethren," he cried, "you have judged us hastily, and you have judged us wrongly.'' The presbytery was unimpressed; the vote for rescinding the call got a larger majority than last month's ballot to remove Merriam from the pulpit...